08R 2683 OR Table Book 1.indb - Texas Legislative Council

Type of License Description
Table 1. Occupational Licenses in Texas
Fire service facility certifi cation Authorizes an institution or facility to operate a
school by or for the state or a local government
specifi cally for training fi re protection personnel
or recruits.
Individual licenses 123
Code
Chapter
Texas Funeral Service Commission
• Funeral director
Authorizes holder to engage in the preparation,
other than by embalming, of a dead human body
for burial or other disposition for compensation and
to arrange for its disposition from the time of taking
charge of the body until its inurnment, interment, or
entombment or its transportation out of this state.
125 • Embalmer
Authorizes holder to disinfect or preserve a dead human
body for compensation using chemical substances,
fl uids, or gases introduced into the body by injection
or direct application into organs or cavities or by other
means of disinfecting or preserving the body.
Establishment licenses 126
• Funeral establishment Authorizes holder to engage in funeral business,
including the care and preparation for burial or
transportation of a dead human body.
• Commercial embalmer Authorizes holder to embalm for licensed funeral
establishment
establishments. 128
• Cemetery establishment Authorizes holder to conduct a cemetery
business. 129
• Crematory
Authorizes holder of a funeral establishment or
commercial embalmers establishment license or
the owner or operator of a perpetual care cemetery
to operate a crematory and perform cremation
services.
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Number of
Active
Licenses
Fees
419 320 $20 (O)
$25 (R)
State Revenue
from Fees
(FY 07)
Year First
Regulated
$7,390 1971
651 5,200 124 $50 $62,440 1935
651 $50 1903
651 1,355 127 $417 $58,000 1953
651 $417 1971
651 $417 2003 130
651 $417 2003 130